Nietzsche considers that modes of exchange -- buying and selling -- preceded any form of community in historical terms.
This functions as an ideological statement, whether or not it was intended as one. The reason is that Nietzsche's philosophy in general views history also in terms of psychologically sedimentary layers. So to say that historically, buying and selling preceded community is to imply that psychologically we tend to place a more primary value on estimating the market worth of something than we would place on belonging to a community.
But I am not of this view, since such a crude organisation of one's priorities, if taken seriously, would surely lead to unhappiness, just because wealth without belonging is not a joyful occurrence.
This functions as an ideological statement, whether or not it was intended as one. The reason is that Nietzsche's philosophy in general views history also in terms of psychologically sedimentary layers. So to say that historically, buying and selling preceded community is to imply that psychologically we tend to place a more primary value on estimating the market worth of something than we would place on belonging to a community.
But I am not of this view, since such a crude organisation of one's priorities, if taken seriously, would surely lead to unhappiness, just because wealth without belonging is not a joyful occurrence.
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